Exclude media from search

[wochurch]

Is it possible to exclude certain items from the search? We have MP3s behind a password page for our teams that we don’t want to be available publicly. Thanks.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Can you provide admin access and a link to the mp3 page?

Guess you are just including the mp3 has attachment or you have any additional plugin to handle the mp3?

-Rui

[wochurch]

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[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Thanks. Just forgot to ask you for an search term example.

Remember that one thing is not to appear attachments in the search(mp3, images, etc) other totally different is to exclude pages that contain mp3 files.

-Rui

[wochurch]

If you search “Kari Jobe”, you’ll see the page we have up for her, and you’ll also see an MP3 that we hope we could exclude.

I think it would be a perfect solution if I could exclude all attachments from showing up. Is that possible? I have a plugin that will exclude pages that I think is working well.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Nope, those results are not from the custom post type attachment.

I tried this code below but it’s only for attachment not pages or other types of custom post types that have mp3 inside.

add_action( 'init', 'exclude_from_search' );
 
function exclude_from_search() {
  global $wp_post_types;
  
  /* Exclude 'attachment' post type. */
  $wp_post_types['attachment']->exclude_from_search = true;
}

Not sure if you already tried S2Member is a great plugin to restrict content.
Unfortunately there no much more we can do for you on this one.

-Rui

[wochurch]

So that code will exclude all attachments from showing up in the search results? I think that will solve our problem. Where do I put that code?

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

I added the code to the functions.php, but has I said I tried that code but the results using the terms you provided me were still the same.

The problem is to exclude pages that have mp3 inside.

-Rui